Obama's counteroffensive diplomatic and financial sanctions will have tremendous effect upon Putin's Russia, in a year or two. In the mean time, Putin's missile will have immediate devastating effect upon the people of the Ukraine. This is a war between guns and bombs on one side, versus letters of diplomatic protest on the other. Sure, the financial restrictions will eventually force Russia to cave in to the desires of U.S., and European intentions, presuming they are not countered between now and when they have had time to be effective. But a meglo-maniac like Putin could not stand to be punished for his misbehavior, like an errant schoolboy, when he presides over the second most powerful military force in the world, and the most powerful military force is presided over by a do-nothing wimp of a President who simply sends letters of protest and slaps him with financial penalties that won't be painful immediately.
So, the recent sanctions do nothing to stop Putin from taking over the Ukrainian territory that he hasn't already, and it may urge him to move immediately into the Mid-East Invasion that I suspect will tempt him as a counter to the financial sanctions that we and Europe will be only too happy to cancel after he conquers the Saudi Arabian, and other gulf states' oilfields, and turns off the spigots. God has promised to put, "hooks in the jaws" of the leader he refers to as "Gog", and as a horse's bit is often shaped like a pair of hooks, this may be what He intends to use to turn Putin's interests toward the Mid-East. For more of my musings on these possible developments, which seem to be prophecied in Ezekiel 38,& 39, please refer back to my post of April 21st of this year.
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